#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student

#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student

“#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student” The city will have to give a laptop loaded with “culturally responsive” textbooks to every student under a bill to be introduced next week by Council Members Ben Kallos and Farah Louis. The measure was prompted by a Department of Education official’s stunning testimony at…

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#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE

#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE

“#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE” Chancellor Richard Carranza’s highly anticipated new grading policy for this school year will again ban failing marks, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post, riling educators and parents. The city Department of Education document, titled “Grading Policy 2020-2021,” says schools should use the…

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#Joe insults allies, media shrug and other commentary

#Joe insults allies, media shrug and other commentary

“#Joe insults allies, media shrug and other commentary” Foreign desk: Joe Insults Allies, Media Shrug Joe Biden last week warned of “the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world,” including democratic Poland and Hungary — and that “half-insulting, half-clueless remark” set off a “diplomatic firestorm,” sighs Gladden Pappin at Newsweek. Yet despite the vigorous protests…

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#Minnesotans tilting toward Trump and other commentary

#Minnesotans tilting toward Trump and other commentary

“#Minnesotans tilting toward Trump and other commentary” 2020 desk: Minnesotans Tilting Toward Trump In 2016, Democratic voters in rural Minnesota’s Iron Range mining community shifted allegiances to Donald Trump, because he spoke out about free trade’s role in “the region’s fading prosperity,” reports The Guardian’s Chris McGreal. This time around, six mayors from the region…

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#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests

#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests

“#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests” Elementary and high schools do not appear to be COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests — a finding that threatens to turn some pandemic theories on their head. Statistics involving 200,000 schoolkids from 47 states in the last two weeks of September yielded an overall coronavirus infection rate of…

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#New Rochelle schools boss resigns less than a year into job

#New Rochelle schools boss resigns less than a year into job

“#New Rochelle schools boss resigns less than a year into job” A former top city Department of Education executive who filed a reverse-discrimination lawsuit against Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has resigned as superintendent of New Rochelle schools. Laura Feijoo’s departure less than a year into her four-year contract was announced by the New Rochelle Board…

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